Van Jones: The real, and dirty, Obama scandal

[limpyhobbler]

(CNN) -- Last week, members of the House of Representatives turned their attention to the biggest Obama scandal yet.

No, I do not mean the IRS or Benghazi. Those are more partisan witch hunt than true scandal, a point backed up by recent CNN polling that shows independents and moderates trust the White House's take.

I also do not mean the investigations of The Associated Press or Fox News reporter James Rosen. Both are worrying cases of the national security state trumping freedom of the press, but neither appear to have made it to the president's desk.

And I hate to break it to the many fans of the hit TV show "Scandal," but that is not what I am referring to, either.


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more:
http://us.cnn.com/2013/05/30/opinion/jones-obama-keystone-pipeline/index.html

[lunasun]

1. "Obama Tar Sands Pipeline."

it could stick to him like obamacare while the congress gets voted back in during 2014

[JustAnotherGen]

2. An early Friday morning kick

Keystone XL is not just another pipeline moving "oil." It would carry chemically treated tar sands. A few years ago this tar leaked into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan. Three years and $1 billion later, the Kalamazoo may never come back.
Tar sands is not traditional oil. It is a pipe-eating, planet-cooking, water-fouling goo that nobody knows how to get out of our water.

Once it 'breaks' something - what it breaks can't be fixed. And we've already environmental disasters due to tar sands oil.

Van Jones and Greg Palast seem to be the only people telling us the truth.

[forestpath]

3. K&R

[Berlum]

4. Let's be reasonable

[limpyhobbler]

7. That's a truly GREAT quote - now only if the words would match the deeds that could help. nt

[JustAnotherGen]

5. kick

[Laelth]

6. The President's "credibility on climate" is already suspect.

However, I agree with the author that the pipeline will be a good test of the President's stated desire to address climate change and the environment in a meaningful way.

-Laelth

[byeya]

8. As far as I am concerned, 0bama is a failure as an environmentalist. Vetoing the XL pipeline

will be a step in his rehabilitation.

I don't expect it.

[limpyhobbler]

9. I pretty much agree. It's hard for some people to hear maybe. But there's no sense pretending.

We don't get anything for it.